Legacy Recordings will celebrate the 80th birthday of Kris Kristofferson with the June 10 release of The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection, a 16-CD deluxe box set.

The most comprehensive Kris Kristofferson musical library ever assembled, The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection brings together 11 essential studio albums, recorded by the artist from 1970 through 1981, individually packaged in a facsimile sleeve reproducing the original album artwork.

In addition, the box set includes five bonus discs of unreleased and hard-to-find live and studio material drawn from Kristofferson’s extraordinary golden era with the Monument and Columbia Records labels. Bonus material includes three highly-collectible concert recordings (two of them previously unreleased) from 1970-1972 and two full discs of rarities featuring non-LP singles, studio outtakes, rare appearances, previously unavailable demos and more.

The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection box set includes a deluxe booklet featuring essays and liner notes penned especially for this anthology: 1) an introduction to Kristofferson written by Fred Foster, the visionary founder of Monument Records who signed Kristofferson as a songwriter to Combine Music and a recording artist for Monument, the label that released his debut album in 1970; 2) an aesthetic appreciation of the artist—”Kris Kristofferson True American Hero”—by musician/producer Don Was; and 3) a revelatory and insightful portrait of Kristofferson and his music from American writer and journalist Mikal Gilmore.

Legacy Recordings is the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment. Kristofferson will turn 80 on June 22.

Disc 1 – Kristofferson (1970)

Tracklist:

1. Blame It On the Stones
2. To Beat the Devil
3. Me and Bobby McGee
4. Best of All Possible Worlds
5. Help Me Make It Through the Night
6. The Law Is for Protection of the People
7. Casey’s Last Ride
8. Just the Other Side of Nowhere
9. Darby’s Castle
10. For the Good Times
11. Duvalier’s Dream
12. Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down

Disc 2 – The Silver Tongued Devil and I (1971)

Tracklist:

1. The Silver Tongued Devil and I
2. Jody and the Kid
3. Billy Dee
4. Good Christian Soldier
5. Breakdown (A Long Way from Home)
6. Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)
7. The Taker
8. When I Loved Her
9. The Pilgrim, Chapter 33
10. Epitaph (Black and Blue)

1. Jesus Was a Capricorn (Owed to John Prine)
2. Nobody Wins
3. It Sure Was (Love) – Kris Kristofferson with Rita Coolidge
4. Enough for You
5. Help Me – Kris Kristofferson with Larry Gatlin
6. Jesse Younger
7. Give It Time to Be Tender – Kris Kristofferson with Rita Coolidge
8. Out of Mind, Out of Sight
9. Sugar Man
10. Why Me

Disc 5 – Spooky Lady’s Sideshow (1974)

Tracklist:

1. Same Old Song
2. Broken Freedom Song
3. Shandy (The Perfect Disguise)
4. Star-Spangled Bummer (Whores Die Hard)
5. The Lights of Magdala
6. I May Smoke Too Much
7. One for the Money
8. Late Again (Gettin’ Over You)
9. Stairway to the Bottom
10. Rescue Mission
11. Smile at Me Again
12. Rock and Roll Time

1. The Year 2000 Minus 25
2. If It’s All the Same to You
3. Easy, Come On
4. Stallion
5. Rocket to Stardom
6. Stranger
7. Who’s to Bless and Who’s to Blame
8. Don’t Cuss the Fiddle
9. Silver (The Hunger)

Disc 8 – Surreal Thing (1976)

Tracklist:

1. You Show Me Yours (And I’ll Show You Mine)
2. Killing Time
3. The Prisoner
4. Eddie the Eunuch
5. It’s Never Gonna Be the Same Again
6. I Got a Life of My Own
7. The Stranger I Love
8. The Golden Idol
9. Bad Love Story
10. If You Don’t Like Hank Williams

Disc 9 – Easter Island (1978)

Tracklist:

1. Risky Bizness
2. How Do You Feel (About Foolin’ Around)
3. Forever In Your Love
4. The Sabre and the Rose
5. Spooky Lady’s Revenge
6. Easter Island
7. The Bigger the Fool (The Harder the Fall)
8. Lay Me Down (And Love the World Away)
9. The Fighter
10. Living Legend

Disc 10 – Shake Hands With The Devil (1979)

Tracklist:

1. Shake Hands With the Devil
2. Prove It to You One More Time Again
3. Whiskey, Whiskey
4. Lucky In Love
5. Seadream
6. Killer Barracuda
7. Come Sundown
8. Michoacan
9. Once More with Feeling
10. Fallen Angel

Disc 11 – To The Bone (1981)

Tracklist:

1. Magdalene
2. Star-Crossed
3. Blessing In Disguise
4. The Devil to Pay
5. Daddy’s Song
6. Snakebit
7. Nobody Loves Anybody Anymore
8. Maybe You Heard
9. The Last Time
10. I’ll Take Any Chance I Can with You

Bonus Discs

Disc 12 – Live At The Big Sur Folk Festival
1. If You Don’t Like Hank Williams
2. The Law Is for Protection of the People
3. Band Introduction
4. The Pilgrim, Chapter 33
5. Duvalier’s Dream
6. Help Me Make It Through the Night
7. Shake Hands With the Devil
8. To Beat the Devil
9. Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)
10. Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
11. Me & Bobby McGee

Disc 13 – The WPLJ-FM Broadcast
1. Duvalier’s Dream
2. When I Loved Her
3. Jesus Was a Capricorn (Owed to John Prine)
4. Same Old Song
5. Band Introductions
6. Smile at Me Again
7. Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)
8. Casey’s Last Ride
9. Billy Dee
10. The Law Is for the Protection of the People
11. Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
12. Help Me Make It Through the Night

Disc 15 – Extras
1. Golden Idol
2. Killing Time
3. Hello In There – Kris Kristofferson With Joan Baez
4. The Junkie and the Juicehead, Minus Me
5. Shadows of Her Mind
6. The Lady’s Not for Sale
7. From the Bottle to the Bottom
8. The Bandits of Beverly Hills
9. Here Comes That Rainbow Again
10. The Bigger the Fool, The Harder the Fall – Kris Kristofferson & Brenda Lee
11. Help Me Make It Through the Night – Kris Kristofferson & Brenda Lee
12. Born to Love Me – Kris Kristofferson & Brenda Lee
13. Put It Off Until Tomorrow – Dolly Parton & Kris Kristofferson
14. Ping Pong – Dolly Parton & Kris Kristofferson
15. Casey’s Last Ride – Kris Kristofferson with Willie Nelson
16. To Make a Long Story Short, She’s Gone – Willie Nelson & Kris Kristofferson
17. How Do You Feel About Foolin’ Around – Kris Kristofferson with Willie Nelson
18. Eye of the Storm – Kris Kristofferson with Willie Nelson
19. Crossing the Border
20. Down to Her Socks
21. Under the Gun
22. The Final Attraction
23. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

Disc 16 – Demos (previously unreleased)
1. Gypsy Rose and I Don’t Give a Curse
2. I Believe That I Believe
3. Born to Die Alone
4. The Hurricane and the Helicopter
5. Bread for the Body (And Food for the Soul)
6. I Can Be Had
7. The Table, The Glass, The Wine
8. A Stitch in the Hand
9. File It Under Sick and Wrong
10. Where She Stops Nobody Knows
11. Lonesome Way of Dying
12. Good for Nothing Blues
13. Fallen Woman
14. No One’s Gonna Miss Me
15. Hitting Close to Home
16. Nobody Owns My Soul